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    <h1>Routing</h1>
    <h2 id="Official-Router"><a href="#Official-Router" class="headerlink" title="Official Router"></a>Official Router</h2><p>For most Single Page Applications, it’s recommended to use the officially-supported <a href="https://github.com/vuejs/vue-router" target="_blank" rel="external">vue-router library</a>. For more details, see vue-router’s <a href="http://vuejs.github.io/vue-router/" target="_blank" rel="external">documentation</a>.</p>
<h2 id="Simple-Routing-From-Scratch"><a href="#Simple-Routing-From-Scratch" class="headerlink" title="Simple Routing From Scratch"></a>Simple Routing From Scratch</h2><p>If you just need very simple routing, you can do so by dynamically rendering a page-level component like this:</p>
<figure class="highlight js"><table><tr><td class="code"><pre><div class="line"><span class="keyword">const</span> NotFound = &#123; template: <span class="string">'&lt;p&gt;Page not found&lt;/p&gt;'</span> &#125;</div><div class="line"><span class="keyword">const</span> Home = &#123; template: <span class="string">'&lt;p&gt;home page&lt;/p&gt;'</span> &#125;</div><div class="line"><span class="keyword">const</span> About = &#123; template: <span class="string">'&lt;p&gt;about page&lt;/p&gt;'</span> &#125;</div><div class="line"></div><div class="line"><span class="keyword">const</span> routes = &#123;</div><div class="line">  <span class="string">'/'</span>: Home,</div><div class="line">  <span class="string">'/about'</span>: About</div><div class="line">&#125;</div><div class="line"></div><div class="line"><span class="keyword">new</span> Vue(&#123;</div><div class="line">  el: <span class="string">'#app'</span>,</div><div class="line">  data: &#123;</div><div class="line">    currentRoute: <span class="built_in">window</span>.location.pathname</div><div class="line">  &#125;,</div><div class="line">  computed: &#123;</div><div class="line">    ViewComponent () &#123;</div><div class="line">      <span class="keyword">return</span> routes[<span class="keyword">this</span>.currentRoute] || NotFound</div><div class="line">    &#125;</div><div class="line">  &#125;,</div><div class="line">  render (h) &#123; <span class="keyword">return</span> h(<span class="keyword">this</span>.ViewComponent) &#125;</div><div class="line">&#125;)</div></pre></td></tr></table></figure>
<p>Combined with the HTML5 History API, you can build a very basic but fully-functional client-side router. To see that in practice, check out <a href="https://github.com/chrisvfritz/vue-2.0-simple-routing-example" target="_blank" rel="external">this example app</a>.</p>
<h2 id="Integrating-3rd-Party-Routers"><a href="#Integrating-3rd-Party-Routers" class="headerlink" title="Integrating 3rd-Party Routers"></a>Integrating 3rd-Party Routers</h2><p>If there’s a 3rd-party router you prefer to use, such as <a href="https://github.com/visionmedia/page.js" target="_blank" rel="external">Page.js</a> or <a href="https://github.com/flatiron/director" target="_blank" rel="external">Director</a>, integration is <a href="https://github.com/chrisvfritz/vue-2.0-simple-routing-example/compare/master...pagejs" target="_blank" rel="external">similarly easy</a>. Here’s a <a href="https://github.com/chrisvfritz/vue-2.0-simple-routing-example/tree/pagejs" target="_blank" rel="external">complete example</a> using Page.js.</p>

    
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